JEWS IN
LIEPAJA/LATVIA, 1941-45
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7'145 Jews
who lived
in Liepāja on 14 June 1941, on the eve of Soviet deportations and the
Holocaust. There is a file card for each person,
giving available information on: date and place of birth and
death, fate, address in 1941, occupation, names of parents, spouse,
children, maiden names, etc. The information comes from 271
sources. This section also
contains pictures of the
executions of 15 Dec 1941.
Alphabetical and
chronological lists of
3'564 burials.
A Memorial
Wall in the Liepāja Jewish Cemetery, which was dedicated on 9 June
2004. It lists 6'428 victims who perished in the
Holocaust or Gulag,
as well as 46 Latvian and German rescuers who saved 33 Jews.
This
part
of the site contains 12 pictures
of the
Wall, information
(program brochure, list
of donors, speeches), and a 230-page list
of victims' names, with age at death and place of death. You can
download this file and print out the pages containing your relatives'
names. The list uses exactly the same font as the Wall.
The
mass
grave in the Shkeede Dunes, where
~7000 victims (including 3640 Jews) were executed by the Nazis 1941Ð45,
has been rediscovered. A memorial stone, commemorating all
victims, has been installed in
October 2006. This part
of the site
contains an account
of the
discovery as
well as pictures,
and
an account of a brazen act of
vandalism byÑJewish bigots. It
also reports on efforts to keep the firm Rapsoil SIA from building wind
turbines virtually on top of mass graves.
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